Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The translator starts Umberto Eco’s
novel with a found manuscript that is so fascinating that the man who found it
and who is traveling with his soon to be romantic partner has to make a
translation of the 14th century manuscript.

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Sandra Dallas loves almost
everything that farm life has to offer, except drudgery, rapid physical
deterioration and impoverishment. Both those negative aspects and the positive
ones of peacefulness, closeness and emotional satisfaction make up the
background for this book.

The internment of
Japanese-Americans was both a necessity and a disgrace. Dallas revives both
aspects in her fictitious internment camp named “Tallgrass.”

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